RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)

[Christopher Beland]

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 09:25 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:01 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Just a short comment: Years ago someone made daily RCs avilable via an
> > Rsync server. Thus it was very easy to get the latest RC -- you just
> > rsynced the installer ISO you already had using rsync. As only small
> > parts of the ISO changed from day to day it was just a few minutes task
> > even with an not that fast internet connection.
> 
> We had that not too long ago.  The amount of people trying to rsync it
> made the server completely unavailable and nobody got the bits.  It was
> a disaster.  Too many people are just eager to "Get the latest bits"
> whether they'll do useful testing with them or not, which ruins it for
> the people who desperately need to verify a bug fix or sanity test a
> compose.

This seems like the sort of problem BitTorrent is designed to solve.  Is
that not a feasible solution because of administrative overhead on the
setup side (which might be fixed with some automation) or because a
differences-only mechanism is needed?

-B.